ru999gol

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by ru999gol 8y ago
just the quote I was commenting on: > When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a “mass suicide,” I am enraged. It was nothing of the kind. Although some of Jones’s most zealous followers may have consumed the poison voluntarily, th
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by ru999gol 8y ago
I understood his point to be, to reject the notion that it was really a mass suicide, but instead he argues it was a mass murder with only a minority willingly committing suicide. Its obviously an understandable viewpoint, the idea that of
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by ru999gol 8y ago
Thats what killed Redis, good on them for warning about it. https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destr...
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by ru999gol 8y ago
I only ever had horrible experience using grpc, its overly complicated, badly documented, has bad code quality and is full of bugs especially in combination with multiprocessing/asyncio. maybe i'm the only one with that experience
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by ru999gol 8y ago
I also remember people hacking IIS, SQL Server, WebDAV or exploiting one of the hundreds of RPC/DCOM/LSASS vulnerabilities in Windows, the servers were then used to start private FTP servers used to sharing warez. At least that wa
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by ru999gol 8y ago
It kinda works in KDE, except some applications like gimp breaking. and of course when connecting an external display everything is broken but thats just normal linux desktop experience anyhow.
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by ru999gol 8y ago
When just implementing a first person type control/viewport I found it way easier to just use euler angles and the gimbal lock didn't really feel unnatural to me. So I think there is something to the idea that maybe you don't
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by ru999gol 8y ago
In the case of images I can just take an off-the-shelf pre-trained model like ResNet as a feature extractor, why should I use a cloud service for that? I don't quite get what the benefit of it is. Are your embeddings better? Well prove
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by ru999gol 8y ago
which then had the interesting effect of actually being great for Google, it will effectively prevent any competition of google news forever. Politicians are all corrupt/payed for, they have absolutely no concept of what they are doing
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by ru999gol 8y ago
its one of those things that if you don't know what it is from a glance you are definitely not the target audience so I would not fault them for it.
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by ru999gol 8y ago
> And it seems like most everybody on there thinks that's a good idea. I think that probably almost anyone is aware of the danger that a system like that, its just that everyone is deliberately ignoring it and weighing it against th
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by ru999gol 8y ago
This is so weird why is she complaining? YouTube already has this copyright censor system requested by Article 13 built with ContentID none of their potential competition has, I don't think it would be hard to comply for them and its n
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by ru999gol 8y ago
But I already pay them extra for that and they do work and profit with my money. You think your bank is just doing nothing with your money? I think its not too much to ask to want to at least get interest matching inflation. But go defend t
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by ru999gol 8y ago
It seems if you save money at the bank they will actually loose money for you since their interest rate is lower than inflation. The financial market is such a clusterfuck lmao
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by ru999gol 8y ago
The amount of garbage I get free with every ZIP file from a Mac user makes me think Apple users aren't the brightest bunch either.
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by ru999gol 8y ago
To have any meaningful impact on global warming there would need to be a massive rapid global economic shift, we would also would need to reduce world population otherwise anything we do will just be nullified by increases in population. I
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by ru999gol 8y ago
Your best bet with Mac OS X virtual machines is giving it a dedicated gpu using pcie passthrough with linux as the host.
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by ru999gol 8y ago
Apple intentionally builds their keyboards in such a way that it is incredible difficult to replace, the amount of skilled labor required doesn't make it profitable to just replace the keyboard. Its eye opening seeing a keyboard replac
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by ru999gol 8y ago
well to be fair Microsoft gave him almost 2 billion for it, at which point it wasn't his to open source anymore, and for him being a sellout I don't blame him, I blame his obnoxious fanbase at the time.